**** Elections thread *****

[BankItDrew]

Cruz:

anti-abortion rights
wants to build a wall to keep illegals out
doesn't believe in universal healthcare
he denies climate change

As a Canadian, I ask you don't vote this guy in.

[wufwugy]

anti-abortion rights

Not all abortion is made equal. A good starting place to see that the "pro-choice" crowd doesn't have the market cornered on being right is that the movement supports partial-birth abortion. Partial-birth abortion is murder. There are no two ways around it. When you induce birth in order to kill, you have murdered.

Neither side has appropriately defined what it means to be a human person. But it should be clear that some of what people think of as "abortion rights" is straight up murder. Probably what the law should say is something like an abortion cut off at 4-5 months. If you look at American conservatism, that's mostly what their "anti-abortion" efforts amount to.

wants to build a wall to keep illegals out

Keyword: illegals. This has nothing to do with immigration (of which conservatives are mostly highly in favor of). This is about the rule of law and not giving special treatment or bad economic incentives.

doesn't believe in universal healthcare

The Canadian government does your healthcare system no favors by being involved in it. Your system hasn't collapsed because it's subsidized by other competitive market forces. We've already seen what happens when government programs are not subsidized by other competitive market forces. That's what the USSR was.

he denies climate change

Not really. His position is nuanced and specific. The bottom line is that the left is out to lunch on this issue. The alarmism is totally unfounded and their suggested solutions, if fully implemented, would lead to catastrophe that would pale the Great Depression. They're also just straight up wrong on the facts and metrics. The sustainable energy cult is anything but sustainable and "green".


It isn't even that Cruz is the best guy in the field, but that Cruz is once in a generation. As a half-lay half-academic student of economics, history, and the social sciences, I'm blown away at how well Cruz understands the issues.